The CREATE Project: Mixed Reality for Design, Education, and Cultural Heritage with a Constructivist Approach

Mixed-reality promises a new era of applications, in which professional or individual users will find unique ways to explore and experience their current activities. Although mixed-reality home devices are still not widely accessible, especially for a broad public, immersive displays and interaction tools are already used in professional industries and institutes. However, the exploration of new applications is still an open research area. In this paper, we present an overview of the European research project CREATE, in which we explore and evaluate new ways of learning by interacting with mixed-reality environments based on real and virtual data sources, and by making use of state–of–the–art technologies and interaction tools. To validate our approach we plan to build two prototypes: one for a cultural heritage application and one for an urban planning and architecture application.